mollusk

Example Sentences

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This humble mollusk is a vital source of income and nutrition for many coastal residents.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

The boy’s family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an eight-legged mollusk, but as Cal got older it became clear that only the real thing would do.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024

It wasn’t a worm, a mollusk, or a crustacean.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 21, 2023

These compacted layers of mollusk fossils always amaze his students, another humble reminder that everything California is standing and building on was underwater in a previous chapter of this planet’s history.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023

She showed Will and Lyra how to gather a particular kind of mollusk by finding their breathing tubes just above the sand.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman